Take a ride inside Ehang’s fully autonomous, two-seater air taxi
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 เม.ย. 2024
- About an hour’s drive from the company’s headquarters in Guangzhou, China, sits a test site for Ehang’s autonomous aerial vehicles.
Perched on the tarmac during CNBC’s visit was the company’s fully autonomous, two-seater air taxi.
“This is our EH216 model, and it is positioned for short-distance transportation or sightseeing in the city,” said Dong Wang, Ehang’s vice president of technical research and development. His interview with “CNBC Tech: The Edge” has been translated into English from Mandarin.
In October 2023, Ehang announced the EH216-S AAV had secured a “type certificate” from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the country’s equivalent to the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States - a certification Wang said is a world first.
“The operation is fully automated. Its scheduling system runs on the server, so its route is automatically loaded, and then it carries out a completely automated route flight.”
The aircraft will cost $410,000 overseas, with a reduced price tag of 2.39 million yuan in China, equal to about $330,000.
“We also have a larger aircraft for transportation between cities. Because of this other aircraft, we also need to build a vertical take-off and landing flight site between cities,” Wang said.
Ehang plans to start commercial operations in China before the end of the year.
Take a tour of the EH216 and watch its test flight by clicking the video above.
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*Thank you for watching. This video is a part of a four-part CNBC Tech series on eVTOLS. You can check out the other parts below:*
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• Inside Lilium, the German company trying to revolutionize air travel - th-cam.com/video/4hxk30BTwgY/w-d-xo.html
Why do you lend legitamcy to this fraudulent enterprise? No range numbers, no duration numbers, no recharge times, no video of passengers carried.
The USA: This is a national security risk.
China advancement mind blowing.
at least this is safer than boeing
Safer…🤦🏾♂️
Although all these major achievements are great (amazingly fast and effective constructions of infrastructures, high-speed rail, airports, space station, lunar explorations, EVs, battery technology, AI leadership, aircraft carriers, money-less payment systems, etc., etc.), however the most important aspect and characteristics of China is its peaceful nature in its global policies. The friendliness of its population toward visiting guests is another beauty of China. The tasty and affordable food variety also helps a lot.
China's neighbours have other opinion on its friendliness. Ask philipines
@@gndeka1188 if you ask a “slave/dog under the gun” these kinds of questions, it is meaningless; any wrong move by the slaver will inevitably result in severe whipping by his master ( sanctions; military threats, including forced occupation; force colonization and murders like last time; etc). If you are truly serious, you should ask someone (country) who is totally independent (militarily and politically), and has a mind of his own.
US: Dare to dream
China: Dare to do.
That is so called American dream.
Ehang and Xpeng are the pioneers in AEV and EVTOL.
I can see that this can be used as express transport between high congestion areas or difficult terrain such as across a large body of water or steep mountains.
Wow. Back in the US we have Boeing.... sigh.
We don’t even a modern public transportation and high speed rail system.
No worries, I live in Florida and I have the answer to the whole evtol thing.. regardless of the electric part.. I just don't yet have the knowledge of being able to take what is in my head and put it down onto something and 3d print it or whatever.. I'm just a paraplegic guy living in his bedroom.. But I intend to figure these things out.. and when I do it will change the world.. Laugh if any wants to, I get it.. lol but mark my words..
@@Pyramid1974 I believe you
Boeing track record in safety: 🤣🤣🤣👎👎👎👎
wumao bot need some reprogramming. Need to look up the term EVTOL.
US still using pilot driven helicopters
China getting more advance by using pilotless, auto driven eVTOL
You mean passengerless.
@@yukon4511 Pilotless, passengers can be inside.
No, you definitely want pilots. I don’t want my life in the hands of a primitive AI system. Trust me airlines want to replace of pilots, and are working to reduce pilots in cockpit from 2 to 1. Surely nothing will go wrong.
Let’s start by building a decent public transportation system and high speed rail. Far cheaper safer efficient and cost effective.
@@xx133 I trust AI pilots, I can't trust so many pilots who fly their machines on top of your head who may be alcoholics or drug addicts.
Yeah that must be it. Nothing to do with regulation. Ofc in China no one cares if you get killed in one of these things but in the west people do care.
EH216-s already start commercial flight 2 weeks ago in Shenzhen, the city will open 200 air routes by the end of 2025, more Chinese cities will start to follow, the low attitude air economy is starting, also more parcels will transport by low attitude air virtual highway in the near future.
China is fast, USA is slow.
When you take shortcuts for everything you can get things done faster.
@@supertec2023 when everything has to deal with political correctness， you can't do anything. American workers are spoiled and too lazy. Also, people become more and more greedy, most smart people study for medical school, law school, finance, and you can see there are a lot of unqualified students in STEM fields and school has to Lower the standards so they can pass the Ph.D. qualifying exam
@@supertec2023yep China wants u to keep thinking like that.
@@supertec2023 Development of infrastructure like the high-speed railway system in the US is not taking shortcuts, that is definitely the American way to go.
China now has an electric bicycle that runs on solid hydrogen!
Amazing!!
IS the future!
No it's not
What about privacy? Everything is server-controlled. The Chinese government may fly you directly to prison.
What about internet and cable outages? Happens here frequently.
Is a disaster
wow, endless possibilities with this...
Ehang 🎉
😍 Transformational air taxi, indeed. eHang 🇨🇳😲👏👏🤝🌞
Very cool
they should upgrade it with some type of skirt to cover the rotating wings
Can the flying taxi be customized to simpler missions like ranch rovers? That is a replacement for choppers that large land ranchers and other agro/conservation teams use
You have DJI for that. The top drone manufacturer in the world by far, and widely used in agriculture and forestry. Check it out.
The DJI matrice series maybe what you are looking for. While DJI had a few series of drone for industrial/agricultural used, check them out.
Can you fly in the DJI drone?
What happens in the scenario where the passengers may have to take over the operation of this aircraft. Is this possible?
I think you can only give the command to where you wanted to go.
Interesting...
Was just there last week
Commercial success of any projects depends on the phisibilty and viability of the concept. However the idea is not bad .
I am not aware of the FAA certifying “autonomous” passenger flight. If the FAA did someday sign off, the first fatal crashes (for any reason) would force a pilot to be added on board. Passengers like pilots to be on their aircraft.
@mw6563, how many car crashes occur in US daily? 6.1 million car accidents in US per year, almost 40k are fatal. The government didn't stop people from driving.
we dont give a f about your US FAA
The same FAA that allowed Boeing to certify itself?
This will never happen
Futuristic China 👍👍
What are your range and duration numbers?
30km for recent certified one (EH216-S) for inner city travel, tourism, 2 passengers. Max 130km/hr or 10m/sec
~50m height, depending on regulations.
Mass production beginning this year
AutoPilot another company (video public) prototype 250km, 5 passengers speed 200km/hr max 400kg
For between cities travel & within
estimate roll out 2026
Etc.
@@james_l4337 I anxiously await their sales figures.
@@james_l4337 Wishing them all the success!
@@james_l4337 I anxiously await the sales figures.
@@james_l4337 what about cost though?
isn't this essentially a electric and lite helicopter?
🎉🎉
Just a big drone huh!?
❤😊❤😂❤😊❤😂❤ WOW! ONLY IN CHINA I GUESS.... WHO CAN AFFORD IT IN PHILIPPINES? LOOKS REALY COOL & BEAT THE TRAFFIC HERE AHAHAHAAAAA!
Wow an helicopter 🚁 revolution 😂😂😂
With far less noise, emissions and cost.
@@simonyapp try to be close to an helicopter the amount of wind it generates is just to much to be effective for everyday transportation and it is still to noisy and the flying range is ridiculously dangerous and it decreases at each fly !
The key takeout is "tridimensional aerial traffic" to 2035; very impressive. In comparison, EEUU to date, does not even have high speed trains.
Go China, Go Ehang
It seems like a bigger drones.😂
This better have a ballistic parachute.
有
Most do
This thing is supposed to fly at low attitude. There will not be enough time for you to decelerate and land safely.
❤
Air taxi vs helicopter ?
Exposed spinning propellers so low to the ground present a serious safety issue.
At least helicopter rotors spin above people's heads.
Indeed. You (and I) are the only people who seem to recognize this serious design fault.
If you just turn your body sideways, there's more than enough space to get to the aircraft door without being turned into hamburger.
@@DemPilafian You first
@@yukon4511 Eeew. Are you a cannibal?
There too many customers, so some will survive...
I wonder how to police this, what kind of traffic rules like speed limit, traffic crossing, criminal activity….?
You have to start from some points, and improving down the road.
Why wouldn't you put the propellers above the cockpit? It seems safer that way.
My Guess: Because the batteries that supply the power in those arms are so heavy that if put overhead, the center of gravity will be too high.
@@stephenchurchill682 That would make sense, only those are what lift it.
Interesting that you don’t even have an engineering degree
@@wroughtforge7547 I don't? Says who?
Helicopter: uses internal combustion engine that consumes diesel and requires a pilot
eVTOL: uses motors which consume electricity stored in batteries and doesn't need a pilot
America: Let Market determine who is the winner!
Also America: Stop China from entering our Markets!!
My habibi
Very true!!!
Taylor Swift watching carefully
No roll cage, no shielded fans, no ballistic low/high parachutes + airbags. Your doomed if that falls out the sky.
Agree, safety needs to come first...
While I'm not particularly keen on this company, it is an X16 craft which means it has essentially 4x redundancy. You can lose any 4 propellers/motors at a minimum and still land fine. You could probably lose a maximum of 10 propellers/motors and still get on the ground with minor to no injuries. At least this is how the craft should and probably is designed.
A roll cage or parachute isn't going to make much if any difference if you fall from a height of ~200-300ft. The parachute will have very limited time to deploy even if it's predicted on time.
All this being said, I would prefer a traditional helicopter with a very long proven track record
So when are we going to have parachute for 747?
Yellen is more worry about over capacity.😆
Solid Hydrogen is the answer!
EH stock going to the moon!
😂😂😂😂 sure lol
Who's here cause they bought at 120$ and still bag holding
Well see
If they used Solid Hydrogen and they could fly all day!
It's going to take a single accident to bankrupt the company.
有降落伞的，兄弟，发生事故可以安全降落
Whos here cause they bought @ 120 and still bag holding
Hurry up and get in before it’s too late.
where are all the birds ?
what if a bird hit the open propellers ?
Vertical propellers don’t suck birds in like jet engines
@@wroughtforge7547 With 8 motors, there is some redundancy. In certain cases you can lose 2 and descend in a spiral pattern. Or keep flying if they are on opposite sides
@@rschulzejr
If you still use propeller technology you are absolutely right. Except now in the 21st century, they use something called AI.
Bring it to Kerala, India
I hope this is safe enough for average consumers; I don't want to be next Kobe Bryant.
No thank you they're all yours 😊😊😊
Oh hell no.
WAS he really inside????????
watch more youtube videos about Ehang
@@jojo-ep2pp it's not helping
why not DJI scale up their drone to make it man size? they have all the expertise, data, and intelligence.
How much can they lift and for how long or for what diatance? They need to prove its possible not show edited videos of people and empty crafts combined through editing.
@CandyKanette no they don't. They are all edited. Find a full flight with a person in one.
@CandyKanette you are mistaken. It's not possible for anyone because of the square cube law in physics. Find any video from anyone that it's possible. If it was there would be a full video of a full flight not videos edited with people and empty crafts. Find proof a person can get in one then take off and stay up 4 minutes. They will be edited if they even try to show that. You just think there is proof but you will not find any if you look l.
That's a stupid comment.
EHang has been operating commercially in the countryside in China for YEARS!!
You can find western reporters flying in those EHang autonomous drones from at least 2 years ago on TH-cam.
The certification for commercial operations is specifically for those cities concerned.
(It never had permission to fly in the cities until now)
@ChinaSongsCollection lies. If it was operating for years then a tourist would upload a complete flight on a video. The only flights are edited and made by the company or shills.
@ChinaSongsCollection what video do you think is proof? What is the title?
It's both an air taxi and the world's largest hamburger maker.
The West would never accept such a design fault.
Are you sure about that? It's flying in Spain already and has in the US...
China really playing cyberpunk fr
It's crazy you only put in where you're going. It's automated flight so what if it runs into another aircraft because of the system? What is the battery life cycle of each charge that they think it's a viable air transport
This is actually NOT new.
EHang has been operating in the countrysides of China for YEARS! And there's never been any issues.
( I don't know why the video didn't mention this.
The certification for commercial operations is specifically for those cities concerned.
As far as I know, the company has been in service for years! )
Solid Hydrogen and they could fly all day!
battery life? are you kidding? they go nowhere.
@@yukon4511 HYDROGEN!
Liquid or gasous?
有商业化前景吗？珠海又要增加一个失败案例
None. No range, little payload, certain failure.
No worries. Teslas will fly AUTONOMOUSLY by the end of next year.
This is an ad ! You guys aren't even shy about this ! CNBC !
This is an excellent ad
@@donkeykong516 it's a deceptive ad. It's not possible to carry people for a duration or distance that would matter for travel anywhere.
We will always let you know if content is sponsored. We don't upload ads to our channel.
@@CNBCi how long did you witness it carry a human passanger? How far did it take someone?
There are plenty of videos with passengers aboard, you're just lazy to find them. Plus this is a certified drone so if they say they can fly 30 km with people inside then I know I can trust it.
Why won't you fly in your company's aircraft?
Who told you this nonsense?
If it wants to becomes an air taxi. But cannot produced in high volumes. The logical consequence is the end price for consumers to pay will be much higher than regular land taxis due to high demand. Not many people can afford it. So how this type of aircraft can solve urban traffic congestions?
If it can become like uber(air uber here)..atleast fare wise,many people will defintely use it and slowly it will become accessible to the masses.Provided it clears all the safety measures too
Currently, its fares are cheaper and shorter than ordinary taxis because air routes can be closer to straight lines.
It can't, it's not even designed for that. This is just some idiots idea which sounded cool, looked cool and probably got a lot of government grants because it's seemingly technologically innovative, thus it becomes a status symbol that only the rich will buy and be able to afford. This is not a solution to traffic congestion because it's an inefficient form of transportation. its aim is to replace helicopters but is it even more efficient and commercially viable than a helicopter? The solution is public transportation not eVTOLS.
@@meenakshikalita8353 Pajjeet Keep the streets clean in Inddia and wash left hand after wiping sh it
It's available on Taobao right now. The EH216-S.
This is just a large drone. Can’t carry a person on it 😢
Why's that? Who told you??? People already fly in it...
Lemme guess !! 20min of flight time then 6hrs of charge 😂
15
you underestimate battery technology
@@herrwolf5184 Please explain it to me.
@@yukon4511 Recharging should be 30 minutes or less assuming a powerful enough charger. It doesn't make much sense to charge faster anyway because there's an inspection between landing and taking off.
How much time it takes for a battery to charge (or safely discharge) doesn't depend on how big it is, but rather on the chemistry and how powerful the charger is. Given the same chemistry and a powerful enough charger, an AAA battery driving a tiny toy car and a container-sized battery driving a large electric cargo ship charge in the same time.
FLY, HIGH WITH A-I BUT ON A-I DO NADA R-E-L-Y.......😮😢
2:55 you see how there are 2 headphones? He didn't fly it.
It's autonomous. You don't fly it, you just get inside and it takes you to your destination.
You weren't listening 😂
One is for the other passenger
What makes you think a 15 minute flight ONLY to a location with a fast charger is a marketable product?
What makes you feel everyone needs to fly 2 hours to a destination? Plenty of situations when you just need to cross a channel, island hopping, tourism, getting from a city center to an airport, all these and more can be just a few kilometers away.
@petrbecak7092 well, one reason is no other company has ever dared market a 20 mile aircraft. Then add 1 to 2 hours of charging on every flight, and you have an unmarkeyable product. For 400 grand? Please!
@@yukon4511How about Volocopter which is second behind Ehang in AAM reality index? "Range: 27 km (17 m) Flight Time: 27 minutes."
@@petrbecak7092 How can you fly people to an airport in an aircraft that has no provision for baggage?
@@yukon4511 not true, there's a space for luggage... not a large one though...
Our future cars
All we have in the USA are guns and boats..
After years of developement, they post a video with no indication of passengers in flight. Should be clear to the world that
this craft can lift batteries or people, but not both.
A simple search results in many videos. They're already being used in Dubai. CNBC chose to post this particular video.
@seokjin3000 What's your point? Battery-powered flying cars don't work.
@@seokjin3000 they are not being used. Why wouldn't a tourist or passanger make a video of their trip on one? Anyone that rode something like that would record it. It's fraudulent vaporware.
@@seokjin3000 no such video exists.
@@seokjin3000 Indeed. A simple search will reveal these toys will not carry people and batteries.
w helicopter
Where is Elon Musk ?
Certified by Chinese Aviation Authority, which means it's legal to fly only in China.
yeah because each country's CAA has its own requirements, so even the cover China its a big market and then some other countries
They don’t have this technology anywhere else.
The rest of the world will be left behind
@@DaddyBear205 unlikely, since there are so many startups on Earth making this kind of vehicle.
How many of these are already certified?
Saw what happend to Kobe, you're not fooling me into this 🚁 ☠️
But he was flying a helicopter, right? Do you know of any safety redundancy in helicopters?
Entity list
No safety precautions were taken into account during the building of this aircraft. Exposed😮 blades 😂 could kill one easily in an event of crash or something 😢😂
So is helicopter.
@iyansetiadi1986 helicopter 🚁 blade are above n big, while this is at the sides. 😅
The difference is that helicopter rotors often spin even when people get into it unlike Ehang. Plus Ehang rotors are so short and light that they stop spinning quickly after landing. This is a certified drone so this issue has already been resolved.
You know I’m doing artwork about all this and it’s getting harder and harder to catch up with all the robots and EVTOLS being released 😮😅 @WHITEHOUSE hey I need an old Air Force Base to do product unboxing. 😂. I need hangers to put robots and aircraft into so they don’t get dusty.😅. Oh wait you don’t get a fly this. Fail! 😂
soon this company will be blacklisted by US politicians
F**king background music**
CHINA IS WAY AHEAD OF US IN LOW ATTITUDE TRAVEL.
Nope not for me…
Spies
but what is china doing about the falling population?
Making lots of robots 😂
Helicopter Pilot loosing there job soon 😔
There have been numerous VTOL for a decades. This isn’t the first one or the best one. Do some research.
Has there already been a fully certified evtol? Please elaborate...
what a joke its a oversized drone
Solid Hydrogen and they could fly all day!
Show a person get in one then take off then fly 5 minutes then land all in one unedited video. Until someone accomplishes this simple feat they are vaporware. A.tourist would record their complete flight wonder why none have. All evtol for humans to ride in are vaporware.
Why would anyone want this nonsense? Please show me a video of o person getting in a car then riding through a city and then getting off within one unaudited video...
@petrbecak7092 people make videos delivering food in cars and their are entitr channels devoted to it. People review cars they bought. Has a customer reviewed their evtol? They are being sold right? Who bought one?
@petrbecak7092 there is a video of the tesla semi making a complete trip. There are plenty of videos.
400 000 USA DOLLARS? STUPID!
If it were free, it would fail.
Why?
Truly stupidly cheap!! ... If you can take tourists for a 10-minute ride for say $50 dollars each, you don't need a pilot then take 45 minutes sleep until next tourists turn up... It's $800/day or $160000 a year revenue easily achievable in tourist hotspots. Still consider it expensive? I'd buy it myself...
So it's a cheap helicopter
I would say both have their use case. Eh-216 is for short distance, safe, economic travel.
pilots are doomed, no more jobs.
The US :" It's a national security threat to the US and our lapdogs. It must be owned by the Americans or we'll have the world to outflank Ehang!"
too expensive to our Chinese ,maybe american can affordable this thing
It's not supposed to substitute cars but if you want to get to the airport from a city center quickly I can't think of a better way if there's no reliable fast public transport available.
😂